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The excellence of the Arabs
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1479899267 (softcover)
9781479899265 (softcover)
Author
Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim 828-889?
Title
The excellence of the Arabs / Ibn Qutaybah ; translated by Sarah Bowen Savant and Peter Webb ; foreword by Jack Weatherford ; volume editor Michael Cooperson
Publisher
New York : New York University Press, 2019
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254 pages ; 22 cm.
Series
Library of Arabic literature
Note
First published in 2017 with parallel Arabic text.
CBL illustrations: front cover (Ar 5655.118).
Bibliography etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.
Contents
Book one: Arab preeminence -- Book two: The excellence of Arab learning -- Horse husbandry -- Stars -- Somatomancy -- Physiognomancy -- Augury, lithomancy, geomancy, and soothsaying -- Oratory -- Poetry -- Wisdom poetry -- Wisdom in the prose and rhyming aphorisms of the Arabs.
Person as subject
Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim -- 828-889? Faḍl al-ʻArab wa-al-tanbīh ʻalá ʻulūmihā
Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim -- 828-889? Faḍl al-ʻArab wa-al-tanbīh ʻalá ʻulūmihā -- English
Subject
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 5655
Islamic civilization -- Early works to 1800
Islamic civilization -- Early works to 1800
Islamic Empire -- Intellectual life -- Early works to 1800
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Savant, Sarah Bowen
Webb, Peter
Weatherford, Jack 1946-
Cooperson, Michael
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